How things really work
Subtitle: lessons from a life in politics
By: by Bill Hobby ; with Saralee Tiede
Contributors: Tiede, Saralee
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780976669746
Subjects: Politics and government; Lieutenant governors; Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestors; title: Will Hobby; title: Oveta Culp Hobby; title: School days; title: In the Navy; title: Remembering LBJ; title: Newspaper days; title: Running for Lieutenant Governor and other political stories; title: How the Texas Senate works; title: The Constitution of 1876 : still standing despite my best efforts; title: Kinder, gentler days; title: Artesia Hall; title: Déjà vu all over again; title: No pass, no play; title: The capitol makeover; title: From third world to world power : a state in transition; title: The privatization of public higher education; title: Boom and bust; title: The dreaded two-thirds rule and the killer bees; title: Family feuds; title: Texas prisons and the war on drugs; title: The poor we always have with us; title: The legislative redistricting board; title: Ten years in academia; title: The Commission on a Representative Student Body; title: The census; title: The National Rifle Association; title: The Hobby-Eberly telescope; title: Hobby for president; title: Just vote no; title: Parting thoughts.